[arin-ppml] The AC has a job to do with 2009-1, can you please help?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Leibrand [mailto:scottleibrand at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:06 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: ARIN PPML
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] The AC has a job to do with 2009-1, 
> can you please help?
> 
> On Apr 6, 2009, at 12:38 PM, "Ted Mittelstaedt" 
> <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Scott Leibrand [mailto:scottleibrand at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:18 PM
> >>
> >> I think this is true on both sides. It would be really useful if 
> >> folks who haven't already expressed an opinion could do so.
> >
> > That opinion is either:
> >
> > 1) I don't care.
> >
> > 2) Your going to do what you want anyway, so why bother saying 
> > anything.
> 
> I think there's something else going on. We routinely get 
> in-depth discussion of some issues on PPML, but usually from 
> a small group of active participants. We then have hundreds 
> of attendees at the public policy meetings, where another 
> group of active participants does most of the talking at the 
> mic. But then, when we have a vote, most of the silent 
> attendees express their opinion, based on the arguments presented.
> 
> Perhaps we should make more use of online polling mechanisms 
> to accomplish something similar on PPML. Or perhaps the 
> current system works well enough.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

The State of Oregon (where I live) is one of the few or only
states that introduced vote-by-mail a few years ago.  Today,
ALL elections, including the Presidential election we just had,
are vote-by-mail.  There are no longer any polling places.
(you can drop ballots off at any post office the day of the
election if you're a lazy ass and don't send it in on time)

During the campaign to go vote-by-mail there were some trial
balloons floated about online voting.  There is no doubt in my
mind that properly structured, online voting would work and
meet all the tests against fraud.  But, these balloons were
shot down instantly from people across the political spectrum for
an enormous number of baloney reasons.  I simply do not think
that people are ready to consider online poll results seriously,
no matter how well the poll is done.

Ted